No. I certainly ***DID NOT*** "expect it to work with pdflatex"!!! Please
read what I wrote. It's very irritating to be taken for a moron when
one is
only an idiot studying hard to be a moron and flunking the course!
I said ***explicitly*** that "powerdot is not compatible with pdftex".
I did
"latex demo", ***NOT*** "pdflatex demo" and got the error that I reported.
But there are two further things to note:
(1) Looking more closely at the screen output from the latex command
I see now that it starts with
"This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012)
restricted \write18 enabled."
I then did "which latex" and got, as expected (since I'd made the
appropriate
modification to my PATH) /usr/local/texlive /2012/bin/x86_64-linux/latex.
So I looked at /usr/local/texlive /2012/bin/x86_64-linux/latex and this
turns
out to be a symbolic link to /usr/local/texlive
/2012/bin/x86_64-linux/pdftex.
So it seems that I was inadvertently using *pdftex*. This seems to be
simply what happens under texlive2012.
(2) Now here's the ***REALLY WEIRD THING***: I have not changed
*anything* about my set-up since my previous post on this topic. I swear
to God!!! Yet now when I do
latex demo
I no longer get the error message that I previously got. How could this
*possibly*
happen? It couldn't. But it did.
Redoing "latex demo" eliminated some warning messages that appeared, doing
"dvips demo" runs without any sort of problem.
But then doing "ps2pdf demo" produces the error:
Error: /undefinedfilename in (demo)
Operand stack:
Execution stack:
%interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval--
--nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval--
--nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push
Dictionary stack:
--dict:1168/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:77/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: No such file or directory
GPL Ghostscript 9.06: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
So I need somehow to get an installation of texlive where "latex" really
means
***latex*** and not "pdftex". How the hell do I arrange that?
cheers,
Rolf Turner
On 04/12/2013 09:23 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
Hi Ed,
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 02:46:52PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
First, I am not a Latex user..... But decided to try your demo
file.... on an F17 system where I installed using yum... I "think" it
is OK?
[egreshko@f17x ~]$ latex demo.tex
[...]
I think the OP expected it to work with pdflatex. The document class he
is using is incompatible with pdflatex and has to processed the old
school way. At least that is what I found from my test[1].
Footnotes:
[1] <http://mid.gmane.org/20130412063253.GA5690@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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